An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust.
Priority HIGH 82CWE-843Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-843 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 0.1.5 for Rust. It may introduce "compatibility hazards" in some applications, and has a type confusion flaw when downcasting. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: This may overlap CVE-2019-25010
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0293 87th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | failure (crates.io) | up to 0.1.8 | — | No fix listed | GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3 |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- failure (crates.io) Vendor— Affected up to 0.1.8 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:failure_project:failure:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | up to 0.1.8 | Vulnerable | Failure Project |
- cpe:2.3:a:failure_project:failure:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* Versions up to 0.1.8 Vulnerable ·Failure Project
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-25575
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3
References
Advisory 2
More Failure Project Failure vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-15150 An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 2019-11-13 for Rust. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2020-25575 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-25575 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jq66-xh47-j9f3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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